IGWEBUIKE AS AN IGBO-AFRICAN ETHIC OF RECIPROCITY

Kanu Ikechukwu Anthony

Abstract


For the purpose of a more particular study in African thought in relation to the ethic of reciprocity, this piece focuses on IGWEBUIKE, which is an Igbo-African philosophy of complementarity to explain how the ethic of reciprocity is at the heart of African philosophy and religion. The Hermenuetic method of inquiry has been adopte for the purpose of this study.

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